The question we are tackling on this page: What is the absolute value of positive 61 or 61?
When you ask, "What is the absolute value of 61?" you are asking for the answer to the following problem:
|61| = ?
The absolute value of 61 is the distance between 61 and 0 on a number line. See illustration below where x is 61:
Since the distance between 61 and 0 on a number line is 61, we get the answer as follows:
|61| = 61
Note that the absolute value of 61 can also be written as abs(61) which may be useful to know if you have a good calculator.
Absolute Value of 62
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